There are four replication files that accompany the paper "Reconsidering the Measurement of Political Knowledge": Mondak.92, Mondak.94, Mondak.96, and Mondak.58. The original data are from the 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1958 NES surveys.

The files are Limdep data files.

The first three files include the same variables, labeled as follows:

Education 		0-6
Age			age in years
Sex			0 = male, 1 = female
Black			0 = other, 1 = black
Hinc			0 = respondent did not answer the income item, 1 = the respondent did answer 
the income item
Binc			0-23 NES income scale, with respondents who did not answer recoded to 0
Interest			0-3
Discuss			0-7
Effi			0-4
Ka			the proportion of knowledge items answered correctly (of 9 items in 1992 and 
1994, and of 7 items in 1996)
Dka			the proportion of knowledge items answered "don't know"
Wrga			the proportion of knowledge items answered incorrectly
Vote			0 = respondent reported that he or she did not vote in the election, 1 = did vote


The 1958 file includes 3 variables:

v19a			0 = correct, 1 = incorrect, 2 = "don't know"
confid			0-3 self-confidence scale
risk			0-1
